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Most ministers of the mainstream Protestant churches profess not to be worried by storefront or cinder-block competition. "They're no real problem." says the Rev. Hugo Leinberger, church extension director for the North Illinois synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church...
...Regent Theater in Harrisburg, Pa., in his home near Mount Vernon in Virginia. Less mighty than most, Young's Wurlitzer has a two-manual console and seven ranks of pipes. But it has cost him more than $10,000 to purchase, ship, and install it in the new cinder-block and brick annex that he built for it behind his house. The work of wiring, releathering, tuning, and voicing took unnumbered hours. Sighs Young's wife: "I'm a Wurlitzer widow...
...world threatened by nuclear destruction, what can I believe? Even "if this earth is blackened to a dry cinder by our massive violence and blinding hate, and if no sign of God appears anywhere, then there still remains in man something that would prefer to face disaster with dignity...
...requited passion, Levin surfaces only to get into more trouble. He rifles the desks of his colleagues in his search for proof that academic freedom is being violated, he rashly campaigns to prevent the cuckolded Dr. Gilley from becoming department head and, in general, behaves like an abrasive cinder in the well-oiled mediocrity of Cascadia State...
...Leverett Towers constitute Harvard's contribution to low-cost housing: one thousand windows, precisely the same: one thousand radiators, precisely the same (no fireplaces); one thousand cheap (and ugly) linoleum floors--and untold millions of utilitarian cinder blocks, many of them unpainted. Every morning when I wake up and touch my ceiling (I do not have to stand on tip toes to do so) I am reminded of how much like insects all of us "Towerites" are: those of us with rooms facing east are awakened by the heat and light of the sun shining through our utilitarian windows...